Andrew Gordon (ice hockey)

Andrew Gordon ( born December 13, 1985 in Halifax, Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since July 2013 at the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League under contract and in parallel for their AHL farm team, the St. John's IceCaps, for used.

Career

The right winger played first from the 2002/03 season for the Notre Dame Hounds in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, a Canadian junior league within the second-rate Canadian Junior Hockey League. During this time, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the seventh round at position 197 of the Washington Capitals. After spending two seasons in the SJHL, the Canadians began a study in the U.S. state of Minnesota at St. Cloud State University and went for the ice hockey team, the Huskies, in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association on the ice. The right-handed shooters managed to steadily increase his points total in the course of his three years of playing in the University team, for which he was honored with a nomination to the First All- Star team of the WCHA in the season 2006/ 07. Following the striker got his first professional contract with the Washington Capitals, for its AHL farm team Hershey Bears winger in the season 2007 /08 for the first time on the ice was, where it ran aground in 58 games of the regular season. In the same season, Gordon was also active for the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL. During the 2008/09 season he made his debut for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League. This was his only NHL - use in that season, while Gordon with the Hershey Bears Calder Cup his first after a success in the final series against the Manitoba Moose won.

In the season 2009/10, the Canadians won with the Hershey Bears Calder Cup in the second episode. Gordon has been involved with 71 points in the regular season and 13 playoff goals in this success significantly and counted alongside Keith Aucoin, Alexandre Giroux and Chris Bourque to the point best players of the team from Pennsylvania, which has a in the regular season with 60 wins franchise record surpassed. Also for the 2010/11 season succeeded the attacker of the final jump in the NHL squad caps not, so he was sent to the farm team to the Hershey Bears Jay Beagle and Mathieu together with Perreault after training camp. On 21 December 2010, Gordon scored in the game against the New Jersey Devils his first NHL goal as the right-handed shooter the goalie Martin Brodeur beat. He spent almost the entire season but again in Hershey. In the AHL All-Star Classic 2011 the offensive player with two hits was successful for the team in the Eastern Conference. In early July 2011, Gordon, whose contract had expired with the Washington Capitals, available as a free agent. On 2 July 2011, he agreed to a contract with two years duration at the Anaheim Ducks. The 2011/12 season, he started in the NHL squad of Californians, which together with Andrew Cogliano and Devante Smith - Pelly, he was the third attack row start of the season.

On 27 February 2012, Californians him transferred in exchange for Sebastian Erixon to the Vancouver Canucks. This put him mainly in the farm team for the Chicago Wolves, where the Canadian was a regular player until the end of the season 2012/13. In July 2013, Gordon signed a one-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets. In Winnipeg he could not prevail in the NHL squad and was submitted in September to the AHL farm team of the Jets, the St. John's IceCaps.

Gordon is regarded as a very fast winger, who established himself as a reliable and consistent scorer in the American Hockey League. He is generally regarded as not particularly physically strong player who has to NHL - level weaknesses in points yield.

Awards and achievements

2007 WCHA First All -Star Team
2009 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
2010 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
2010 AHL Second All-Star Team
2011 AHL All- Star Classic

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

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